Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoshihiro Gake

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

Tom Borrelli

I think that had a real big affect on him. He didn't have a chance to work on some of the things he really wanted to work on in the summer and the fall.

Ridha Jawad

Iraqis are beginning to feel frustrated, ... The court should be more active. Saddam was captured two years ago and we feel that the sentence he will get will be reduced ... The weakness of this court might affect the verdicts and this is worrying us.

Curtis Hanson

I read this script and it struck a chord with me, and I thought, why does this story affect me so much? And I realized that it reminded me a lot of my relationship with my brother - two people who took very different routes to get to a very similar place.

Paul Roos

Clearly we would prefer to train here, there is no question about that. That is the reason we have the sessions booked. You like to train on the venue you will play at and have a run around, but it won't affect how we play on Saturday night.

Ben Bernanke

Clearly it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit. You've had a lot of property damage. Basic services are down.

Ben Bernanke

Clearly, it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit,

Graeme Stephens

Clouds grossly affect the greenhouse effect on the planet. So they play a very profound role in weather and climate. Yet taken altogether they are one of the most poorly understood aspects of the climate change problem.

Joe Montana

I'm an athlete. I'd been working out all my life, so I thought, It won't affect me.

Abby Cohen

Our valuation work for the S&P 500 has long assumed moderation of profit growth to about 8 percent from 20 percent and a rise in core inflation.

Tedy Bruschi

I've been doing everything I could possibly do except for putting the pads on, ... 'I had to make myself ready first and I believe I did that.

Alexi Lalas

I've been corresponding with his people and different people within MLS and within our organization have different contacts down there to try and get a hold of him because he's not the easiest guy to get a hold of. From what I've heard back, the feedback we've gotten, is that he is en route. I'll believe it when I see it.

Jon Heacock

I've been coaching defense a long time and I still believe you have to be able to run the football to win and win consistently. I don't get as nervous about large passing numbers.

Dan Rosensweig

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

Harry Moberly

I've been doing this for a long time - longer than the governor's been involved in state government. And I don't believe that using some of the rainy day fund will be any negative at all toward our bond rating or our position in financial markets because of our overall economic growth and stability.

Ted Fabian

I've been nervous all day. It's a great honor and I can't believe I actually won.

Joan Kirner

I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

Geoff Ogilvy

I've never had a double eagle before. You don't believe it. When everybody jumps up and down, it doesn't register for a little bit.

David Archuleta

I've never had a celebrity crush! I don't believe in those, really. I feel like you have to get to know the person before you start to feel anything like that. People always think they know celebrities, but how can you when you've never met them?

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Debby Ryan

I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough cool, interesting characters out there.

Christopher Nolan

My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen.

Christopher Reeve

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

Christopher Reeve

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

Christopher Walken

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

Christopher Walken

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.

Christopher Paolini

Characters are born from necessity.

Christopher Meloni

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

Bobby Cox

Roger should have won in the low 20s this year and John should have won 18, 19 or 20.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Tim Cox

This is the first time when we can touch people when they have been devastated.

Mark Serwotka

This is not a union that is struggling. People see we are standing up for what they want and they want to join.

Dominique Moisi

This is not a triumph for Chirac. People didn't go to vote.

Bruce Babbitt

This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many people. The problem is there's too many cars.

Julie Taymor

This is not to make it easier, it's just to entice people to come.

Bill Cheney

This is simply what a recession is like. This report represents real people and real pain, especially around the holidays.

Jaromir Jagr

This is probably the most surprising season, my season and the team's. For a lot of people around the league.

Harry Price

This is so wonderful to see all of these people who are working to preserve our history,

Simon Hauger

This is off-the-shelf technology, and we're not 180 I.Q. people around here.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.